A BRIDGE OVER YOU
by LEWISHAM & GREENWICH NHS


The Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir had previously appeared on the first series of Gareth Malone's BBC Two show The Choir: Sing While You Work, in a competition between workplace choirs, in 2012. The choir first released their mash-up of Coldplay’s Fix You and Simon & Garfunkel’s 1970 UK Official Singles Chart Number 1 Bridge Over Troubled Water in 2013, but it failed to do very much at the time selling only 5000 copies.

However, in 2015 doctors Katie Rogerson and Harriet Nerva launched a social media campaign to make the single to Number 1. They knocked off Justin Bieber’s Love Yourself from the top, thanks mainly to him encouraging his followers to download the song with a link, giving the choir a 30,000 sales advantage, and making it 2015’s UK Official Singles Christmas Chart Number 1 with 127,000 sales overall for one week before Bieber replaced it. The song’s proceeds were split between causes including Carers UK and the charity Mind. 

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  1. 1No1
  2. 1Top 10
  3. 1Top 20
  4. 2Top 40
  5. 2Top 75
  6. 2Top 100

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= Peak position = This week

2 weeks - 31/12/2015 to 07/01/2016

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  • LabelEMUBANDS
  • Catalogue numberGBMJG1306850
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Weeks on chart

  1. 0No1
  2. 1Top 10
  3. 1Top 20
  4. 1Top 40
  5. 1Top 75
  6. 1Top 100

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1 week - 27/12/2015

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  • LabelEMUBANDS
  • Catalogue numberGBMJG1306850
  • First Chart Date

Weeks on chart

  1. 1No1
  2. 1Top 10
  3. 2Top 20
  4. 2Top 40
  5. 2Top 75
  6. 2Top 100

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2 weeks - 31/12/2015 to 07/01/2016

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  • LabelEMUBANDS
  • Catalogue numberGBMJG1306850
  • First Chart Date

Weeks on chart

  1. 1No1
  2. 1Top 10
  3. 2Top 20
  4. 2Top 40
  5. 2Top 75
  6. 2Top 100

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= Peak position = This week

2 weeks - 31/12/2015 to 07/01/2016

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  • Peak position1
  • LabelEMUBANDS
  • Catalogue numberGBMJG1306850
  • First Chart Date

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  1. 1No1
  2. 2Top 10
  3. 4Top 20
  4. 4Top 40
  5. 5Top 75
  6. 5Top 100

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2 weeks - 21/12/2013 to 28/12/2013

3 weeks - 31/12/2015 to 14/01/2016

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  • Peak position2
  • LabelEMUBANDS
  • Catalogue numberGBMJG1306850
  • First Chart Date

Weeks on chart

  1. 0No1
  2. 3Top 10
  3. 3Top 20
  4. 3Top 40
  5. 3Top 75
  6. 3Top 100

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= Peak position = This week

2 weeks - 21/12/2013 to 28/12/2013

1 week - 24/12/2015

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